It’s good to talk

Sam Llewellyn writes nautical thrillers and edits The Marine Quarterly. He is currently patching up a 30ft ketch

Thanks to the slatting and banging of a flat calm we have not slept for days and nights and days and nights. We are staring over the rail. There seems to be an albatross hung round the neck. Over there in the heat-haze, slimy things do crawl with legs upon the slimy sea. Nothing makes sense any more…